Method and device to automate content transfer based on resource context awareness

ABSTRACT

A method, device and computer program product are provided. The method is under control of one or more processors includes program instructions to perform resource context awareness (RCA) by automatically. The method accesses an active destination resource at a computing device, matches the active destination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCA transfer library and transfers an outbound resource advancement (RA) content segment stored in memory of the computing device to the active destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library.

BACKGROUND

Embodiments herein generally relate to methods and devices forautomatically transferring content between applications and a clipboardbased on resource context awareness.

Today, individuals utilize computing devices to implement a wide varietyof applications, such as network related applications, locally operatedapplications and otherwise. For example, a network related applicationmay be accessed through and navigated by a browser operating on a user'scomputing device. As another example, local applications may includeword processing applications, Excel spreadsheets, drafting packages andthe like. As another example, a local application may operate inconnection with a remote server, such as an application loaded on asmartphone, tablet device, etc., to access a bank account, airlinereservation service, online shopping service, restaurant reservationservice, restaurant or coffee shop order service and the like.

Many applications require a user to login to an account and to entercertain “standard” types of content into predetermined fields inconnection with navigating the application. For example, as part of thelogin process, a user is often required to enter credentials inconnection with two-factor authentication where at least a portion ofthe credentials are received at the computing device through a separateapplication (e.g., a text message, email). As another example, when auser utilizes a travel reservation application (e.g., booking an airlineflight or hotel), the application will prompt the user for standardcontent, such as name, age, address, credit card information and thelike.

Today, users manually enter the content into the corresponding fields inan application requesting such information. The user may manually typethe content in the field. Alternatively, the user may obtain the contentfrom a separate application, such as in connection with two-factorauthentication, requesting a new password for an account and the like.Also, in some instances, users may maintain certain repetitive content(e.g., usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.) in a localapplication (e.g., a word file, Excel spreadsheet, or password manager).When a user opens a new application that requires such authentication orrepetitive content, the user either re-types the content into thecorresponding field in the destination resource or “copies and pastes”the content from the source Word or Excel file to the destinationresource. In connection therewith, the user manually selects and copiesportions of text received from an e-mail, a short message service, auniform resource locator (URL), and/or the like using a user interface.The user is then required to select the appropriate field and/orposition and to paste the copied content to the field/position. Theforegoing process for transferring content between applications istime-consuming, cumbersome and prone to mistakes.

SUMMARY

In accordance with embodiments herein, a method is provided. The methodcomprises, under control of one or more processors, included programinstructions to perform resource context awareness (RCA) automatically.The method accesses an active destination resource at a computingdevice, matches the active destination resource to a resource context ofinterest (COI) from an RCA transfer library and transfers an outboundresource advancement (RA) content segment stored on a memory of thecomputing device to the active destination resource based on theresource COI from the RCA transfer library.

Optionally, the method may designate a content segment stored in thememory of the computing device to be the outbound RA content segmentbased on the resource COI. The method may include receiving a userconfirmation input in connection with automatically transferring thecontent segment to the memory. The method may identify a transfer actionfrom the RCA transfer library based on the resource COI. The transferaction may include an operation to transfer a content segment from asource resource. The outbound RA content segment may be identified basedon the transfer action. The transfer action may identify source anddestination contexts for the source and active destination resources.

Optionally, the RCA transfer library may include multiple transferactions that may comprise operations for selecting a source field from asource resource, copying content from the source field to the memory,selecting content from the memory, designating a destination fieldwithin a destination resource and copying the content from the memory tothe destination field within the destination resource. The transferringmay be based on one of the transfer actions corresponding to theresource COI. The method may access a source resource at the computingdevice. The method may automatically identify a transfer actionassociated with a combination of the source resource and the activedestination resource. The transfer action may designate the resource COIassociated with a content segment to copy and paste from the sourceresource and to the active destination resource.

Optionally, the method may identify an incoming content segment withinthe source resource and may copy the incoming content segment to thememory. The transferring may comprise automatically pasting the incomingcontent segment to the active destination resource as the outbound RAcontent segment. The memory may comprise multiple content segmentsarranged on the memory in an order in which the content segments werestored to the memory. The transferring may comprise automaticallypulling the outbound RA content segment from the memory independent ofthe order in which the content segments are arranged on the memory. Themethod may populate the RCA transfer library by tracking contentsegments copied from source resources to the memory, identifying sourceresources COI from the source resources, tracking destination resourcesto which the content segments are pasted, identifying destinationresources COI for the destination resources, determining a correlationbetween the content segments, the source resources COI and thedestination resources, and building transfer actions based on thecorrelation and storing the transfer actions in the RCA transferlibrary.

In accordance with embodiments herein, a device is provided. The devicecomprises memory to store program instructions. The memory includes aclipboard to store content segments. The device comprises, under controlof one or more processors, included program instructions to performresource context awareness (RCA) by automatically accessing an activedestination resource opened on the device, matching the activedestination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from aresource context awareness (RCA) transfer library, and transferring anoutbound resource advancement (RA) content segment stored on theclipboard of the computing device to the active destination resourcebased on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library.

Optionally, the memory may store an application. The device may furthercomprise a display to display a window associated with the applicationoperating on the device. The window may correspond to the activedestination resource. The transferring may comprise pasting the outboundRA content segment to a field in the window. The content segment mayrepresent a credential, and the active destination resource mayrepresent a login webpage. The transferring may comprise automaticallypasting the credential to a credential entry field in the webpage. Theresource COI may represent one or more of a credentials context,multi-factor authentication context, travel context, account profilecontext, and financial payment context. A machine learning algorithm(MLA) may be stored on the memory. The MLA may update the RCA transferlibrary. The RCA transfer library may be stored and maintained on aremote device. The memory may store the RCA transfer library. The devicemay identify an incoming content segment within a source resource andmay copy the incoming content segment to the clipboard based on atransfer action stored in the RCA transfer library. The transferring maycomprise automatically pasting the incoming content segment to theactive destination resource as the outbound RA content segment.

In accordance with embodiments herein, a computer program product isprovided. The computer program product comprises a non-signal computerreadable storage medium comprising computer executable code to performresource context awareness (RCA) by automatically accessing an activedestination resource at a computing device, matching the activedestination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCAtransfer library and transferring an outbound resource advancement (RA)content segment stored on a clipboard of the computing device to theactive destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCAtransfer library.

Optionally, the executable code may access a source resource at thecomputing device and may automatically identify a transfer actionassociated with a combination of the source resource and the activedestination resource. The transfer action may designate the resource COIassociated with content to copy and paste from the source resource andto the active destination resource. A clipboard may store multiplecontent segments arranged on the clipboard in an order in which thecontent segments were stored to the clipboard. The executable code mayautomatically pull the outbound RA content segment from the clipboardindependent of the order in which the content segments are arranged onthe clipboard. The executable code may populate the RCA transfer libraryby tracking content segments copied from source resources to theclipboard, identifying source resources COI from the source resources,tracking destination resources to which the content segments are pasted,identifying destination resources COI for the destination resources,determining a correlation between the content segments, the sourceresources COI and the destination resources and building transferactions based on the correlation and storing the transfer actions in theRCA transfer library.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a system implemented to automatically transfercontent to a resource based on resource context awareness in accordancewith embodiments herein.

FIG. 2 illustrates a process for building the RCA transfer library inaccordance with embodiments herein.

FIG. 3 illustrates a graphical representation of a process forautomatically managing content transfer to a destination resource basedon resource context awareness in accordance with embodiments herein.

FIG. 4 illustrates a process for the automatically transferring contentsegments from a source resource to a destination resource in accordancewith an alternative embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

It will be readily understood that the components of the embodiments asgenerally described and illustrated in the figures herein, may bearranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations inaddition to the described example embodiments. Thus, the following moredetailed description of the example embodiments, as represented in thefigures, is not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments, asclaimed, but is merely representative of example embodiments.

Reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment” or “anembodiment” (or the like) means that a particular feature, structure, orcharacteristic described in connection with the embodiment is includedin at least one embodiment. Thus, appearances of the phrases “in oneembodiment” or “in an embodiment” or the like in various placesthroughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to thesame embodiment.

Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics maybe combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In thefollowing description, numerous specific details are provided to give athorough understanding of embodiments. One skilled in the relevant artwill recognize, however, that the various embodiments can be practicedwithout one or more of the specific details, or with other methods,components, materials, and/or the like. In other instances, well-knownstructures, materials, or operations are not shown or described indetail to avoid obfuscation. The following description is intended onlyby way of example and simply illustrates certain example embodiments.

It should be clearly understood that the various arrangements andprocesses broadly described and illustrated with respect to the Figures,and/or one or more individual components or elements of sucharrangements and/or one or more process operations associated of suchprocesses, can be employed independently from or together with one ormore other components, elements and/or process operations described andillustrated herein. Accordingly, while various arrangements andprocesses are broadly contemplated, described and illustrated herein, itshould be understood that they are provided merely in illustrative andnon-restrictive fashion, and furthermore can be regarded as but mereexamples of possible working environments in which one or morearrangements or processes may function or operate.

The term “destination resource” as used throughout, refers to a resource(e.g., window, webpage, etc.) presented on a display to the user inconnection with the operation of an application, where the resourceincludes one or more content entry fields that the user populates beforethe application will advance beyond the resource. A destination resourceis “active” when the resource is open and displayed on the display ofthe computing device.

The term “source resource” as used throughout, refers to a resource(e.g., SMS text message, email, webpage, Word file, Excel file, Notesboard) presented on a display to the user and containing one or morecontent segments intended to be copied to a data entry field in adestination resource.

The terms “resource advancement content segment” and “RA contentsegment” as used throughout, refers to any and all textual, image, audioor video information, script components, URLs, links and/or acombination thereof, that are entered into a destination resource inconnection with advancing to a next window, state, function or phase ofthe application. The RA content may include at least one of e-mailcontent, short message service (SMS) content (e.g., text message),website content (e.g., text, images, script), a uniform resource locator(URL), a telephone number, personal content information (e.g., address),credentials (e.g., password), multi-factor authentication, travel (e.g.,air, car, hotel), account profile information, financial paymentnumbers, (e.g., credit card, PayPal, debit card), such as the completedata content (including addressing headers) for an individual or stringof email messages, text messages and/or the like. The RA content mayalso include linking components that include a link or address of otherRA content. The RA content components may also represent script-basedcomponents, for which one or more scripts are to be executed before abrowser can render and display an executed script (e.g., graphics, text,images, video, audio and the like). The RA content components may alsorepresent auto activated components that begin to play automaticallywhen opened in a browser.

The term “transfer action” refers to a sequence of one or moreoperations to be performed in connection with transferring contentbetween two resources. Non-limiting examples of operations within atransfer action include selecting a source field from a source resource,copying content from the source field to a clipboard, selecting contentfrom a clipboard, designating a destination field within a destinationresource and copying content from a clipboard to a destination field ina destination resource. A transfer action includes, among other things,information identifying a context of source and/or destination resourcesbetween which content is transferred (also referred to as source anddestination contexts). A transfer action may also include one or morecharacteristics of interest for a content segment copied from a sourceresource, and/or one or more characteristics of interest for a dataentry field in a destination resource to which a content segment iscopied.

The term “transfer library” is used generally to refer to any type ofmemory section that is managed to store the types of content describedherein. The “transfer library” may store content in various formats at acommon discrete location and/or distributed across multiple storagelocations, such as multiple servers, cloud resources, and/or the like.

The term “machine learning algorithm” refers to an artificialintelligence algorithm that learns from various automatic or manualinputs, such as observations and/or data. For example, the machinelearning algorithm may be configured based on the measuring ofhistorical responsiveness based on text copied from the communicationcontent. The machine learning algorithm is adjusted over multipleiterations based on the observations and/or data. For example, themachine learning algorithm is adjusted by supervised learning,unsupervised learning, and/or reinforcement learning. Non-limitingexamples of machine learning algorithms are a decision tree, K-means,deep learning, artificial neural network, and/or the like.

FIG. 1 illustrates a system implemented in accordance with embodimentsherein to automatically transfer content to a resource based on resourcecontext awareness. The system utilizes a machine learning algorithm orartificial intelligence engine to monitor for “likely to copy” contentsegments, for which a high probability exists that a user will copy thecontents segment from a source resource onto a clipboard. The systemutilizes the machine learning algorithm or artificial intelligenceengine to determine “likely to paste” content segments, for which a highprobability exists that a user will paste the contents segment from theclipboard to a field in a destination resource. The system furtherprovides a clipboard management function that allows multiple contentsegments (objects) to be maintained on the clipboard at the same timeand to be pulled from the clipboard in any order without regard for anorder in which the content elements were added/stacked onto theclipboard.

The system 100 includes one or more resource managers 102 that manageand otherwise provide access to one or more data stores 150 that storenetwork resources 152. The resource managers 102 communicate with one ormore computing devices 110 through one or more networks 112, to provideaccess to the applications (network resources 152). The networks 112 mayrepresent the World Wide Web, a local area network, a wide area network,and/or the like. The computing devices 110 may represent various typesof electronic devices (e.g., digital personal assistant, virtualassistant, intelligent digital assistant, client device, and/or thelike) including, but not limited to, a smartphone, a cell phone, alaptop, a computer, a tablet device, and/or the like. Optionally, thesystem 100 includes one or more remote devices 160 that build andmaintain a resource context awareness (RCA) transfer library.Optionally, the computing devices 110 may build and maintain the RCAtransfer library instead of or in addition to the RCA transfer librarymaintained by the remote device 160.

The resource manager 102 may represent a server or other network-basedcomputing environment. The resource manager 102 may represent a singlecomputer system or a collection of computer systems located at a commonlocation or geographically distributed. The resource manager 102includes one or more processors 104 and memory 116, among otherstructures that support the operation of the resource manager 102.Optionally, the resource manager 102 may be included on the computingdevice 110. The data store 150 may store the network resources 152organized in various manners and related to a wide variety of topics andcontent. As non-limiting examples, collections of network resources 152may be organized and maintained in connection with websites, web pages,blogs, social media, and/or the like.

The computing device 110 includes one or more processors 114, memory116, a display 118, a user interface 120 and a network communicationsinterface 122. The display 118 and user interface 120 collectinformation from and present information to the user in connection withvarious operations and applications implemented by the computing device110. The network communications interface 122 facilitates communicationthrough the network 112 with the resource manager 102.

The memory 116 stores various data, programs, applications and the like.In connection with embodiments herein, the memory 116 stores a resourcecontext awareness (RCA) manager 126 that implements operations asdescribed herein. The memory 116 further stores a machine learningalgorithm (MLA) 121 implemented by the RCA manager 126 to performoperations as described herein. The memory 116 further stores an RCAtransfer library 130 that maintains transfer actions as described hereinto support content transfer in connection with resource contextawareness. Optionally, the computing device 110 may utilize a browser124 that is operated in connection with one or more applications 127 tonavigate between source and destination resources 134, 136.

As explained herein, the RCA manager 126 monitors and identifies accessto an active destination resource 136 at the computing device 110. TheRCA manager 126 identifies a resource context associated with the activedestination resource 136 and matches the active destination resource 136to a resource context of interest in the RCA transfer library 130. TheRCA manager 126 utilizes the match to the resource context of interestto identify a transfer action from the RCA transfer library 130 that ispotentially related to the active destination resource 136. From thetransfer action, the RCA manager 126 identifies one or more contentsegments of interest stored on the clipboard 125 in the memory 116. TheRCA manager 126 designates the identified content segment as an outboundresource advancement (RA) content segment. The RCA manager 126 transfersthe outbound RA content segment from the clipboard 125 to acorresponding field in the active destination resource 136, therebyaffording a content transfer operation based on resource contextawareness.

The application 127 may represent various types of applications, such asnetwork related applications that interact with a remote networkresource. When the application 127 represents a network relatedapplication, the browser 124 may be utilized to initiate a browsersession at the computing device 110. The browser 124 since variousrequest to the network resource (e.g., resource manager 102) and inresponse thereto, receives network resources, one or more of which mayrepresent an active destination resource. The RCA manager 126 monitorsoperation of the browser 126 to determine when a network resource isaccessed that calls for entry of content before the application mayprogress past the network resource. For example, the RCA manager 126 maydetermine whether the network resource includes a content entry fieldthat must be populated in order to advance operation of the applicationto a next window, function, or phase. For example, the window maypresent a login page, travel site check-in webpage, and/or a paymentpage where credit card information is entered. As another example, theactive destination resource may present a window requesting profileinformation, such as in connection with buying plane tickets, renting acar, or reserving a hotel room. For example, a destination resource maybe activated/opened from a webpage by selecting a link, opening aFacebook application, logging into an airline, hotel, bank, rental carapplication or website. For example, the active destination resource mayrepresent a login window, where a user ID and password fields requireentry of user credentials as RA content before the application willadvance past the login screen. As another example, the activedestination resource may represent a credit card information entrywindow, where credit card related information is required as the RAcontent before the application will advance to the next page/resource.

When the RCA manager 126 identifies a network resource that has one ormore content entry fields, the RCA manager 126 declares the networkresource to represent an active destination resource. In accordance withembodiments herein, the RCA manager 126 implements operations describedherein to determine whether the clipboard includes a content segmentappropriate to automatically paste, as an outbound RA content segment,to a field in the active destination resource.

The RCA manager 126 may execute one or more machine learning algorithms(MLA) 121 stored in the memory 116 to build and update the RCA transferlibrary 130. The processors 114 may execute a decision tree, K-means,deep learning, artificial neural network, and/or the like. To build andupdate the RCA transfer library 130, the MLA 121 monitors operationsperformed by the computing device 110 periodically, over an extendedperiod of time, during a learning mode or otherwise. The RCA manager126, utilizing the MLA 121, monitors and tracks user actions inconnection with an opening, accessing and closing resources (e.g., webpages, application windows) during operation of the computing device110. The RCA manager 126 monitors and tracks the user interactions insearch of action sequences representing all or part of “transferactions.” When the RCA manager 126 identifies a transfer action, the RCAmanager 126 performs operations described herein to build or update theRCA transfer library 130.

The remote device 160 may represent a server or other network-basedcomputing environment. The remote device 160 may represent a singlecomputer system or a collection of computer systems located at a commonlocation or geographically distributed. The remote device 160 includesone or more processors 164, memory 166, a display, a user interface anda network communications interface. The display and user interfacecollects information from and present information to the user inconnection with various operations and applications implemented by theremote device 160. The network communications interface facilitatescommunication through the network 112 with the resource manager 102 andnumerous computing devices 110.

The memory 166 stores various data, programs, applications and the like.In connection with embodiments herein, the memory 166 stores a resourcecontext awareness (RCA) manager 176 that implements operations asdescribed herein. The memory 166 further stores a machine learningalgorithm (MLA) 171 implemented by the RCA manager 176 to performoperations as described herein. The memory 166 further stores an RCAtransfer library 180 that maintains transfer actions 172 as describedherein to support content transfer in connection with resource contextawareness. By way of example, a transfer action 172 may include a recordof a series of operations 174 performed in connection with a combinationof a source resource and destination resource. The transfer action 172may include and define one or more of the context of the source anddestination resources, one or more characteristics of interest for thecontent segment copied from the source resource, one or morecharacteristics of the field within the destination resource to whichthe content segment is pasted, as well as additional or alternativeinformation.

The remote device 160 collects information concerning copy and pasteoperations performed by a large population of computing devices 110 andanalyzes the copy and paste operations to identify transfer actionsperformed by the computing devices 110. In accordance with anembodiment, the computing devices 110 may maintain records of contextsfor source and destination resources accessed by the computing devices110, characteristics of interest for content segments copied from sourceresources and pasted to destination resources, and characteristics ofinterest for data entry fields in the destination resources that receivethe content segments. The computing devices 110 convey, to the remotedevice 160, the contexts for the source and destination resources andcharacteristics of interest for content segments and data entry fields.The remote device 160 calculates transfer actions based on the recordsof the source and destination resources and content segments.Optionally, the computing devices 110 may perform all or a portion ofthe operations to calculate the transfer actions.

As explained herein, the RCA manager 176 builds and updates transferactions 172 within the RCA transfer library 180, such as based on theoperations described herein in connection with FIG. 4. The RCA manager176 processes the records, from computing devices 110, that trackcontent segments copied from source resources to a clipboard, identifysource resource contexts of interest from the source resources, trackdestination resources to which the content segments are pasted, identifydestination resource contexts of interest for the destination resources,determine a correlation between the content segments, the sourceresources COI and the destination resources, and build transfer actionsbased on the correlation and storing the transfer actions in the RCAtransfer library.

The RCA manager 176 may execute one or more machine learning algorithms(MLA) 171 stored in the memory 166 to build and update the RCA transferlibrary 180. The processors 164 may execute a decision tree, K-means,deep learning, artificial neural network, and/or the like. To build andupdate the RCA transfer library 180, the MLA 171 monitors operationsperformed by the computing device 110 periodically, over an extendedperiod of time, during a learning mode or otherwise. The RCA manager126, utilizing the MLA 121, monitors and track user actions inconnection with the opening, accessing and closing resources (e.g., webpages, application windows) during operation of the computing device110. The RCA manager 126 monitors and tracks the user interactions insearch of action sequences representing all or part of “transferactions”. When the RCA manager 126 identifies a transfer action, the RCAmanager 126 performs operations described herein to build or update atransfer action 172 in the RCA transfer library 180.

FIG. 2 illustrates a process for building the RCA transfer library inaccordance with embodiments herein. For example, the operations of FIG.2 may be implemented all or in part by the computing device 110, and/orremote device 160. As a further example, the operations of FIG. 2 may beimplemented by the processors 114, 164 in connection with implementingthe RCA manager 126, 176 and/or MLA 121, 171.

At 202, one or more processors of the computing and/or remote devices110, 160, identify when a resource is open and track content segmentscopied from the resource to a clipboard on the computing device. Forexample, when all or select types of content are copied to a clipboard,the processors 114, 164 may determine the source of the content.Responsive to the content is copied from a resource (e.g., webpage,application window, etc.) the processors designate the copying operationas a portion of a candidate transfer action and designate the resourceas a candidate source resource. A source is designated as a “candidate”source resource unless and until the content copied therefrom is pastedto a destination resource. When the content is copied to a destinationresource, the candidate source resource is no longer a “candidate,” butinstead is relabeled as a source resource. When content is copied from aresource but not pasted anywhere, the resource does not represent a“source” resource in accordance with the operations described herein.

At 204, the one or more processors identify a context associated withthe candidate source resource. For example, the processors may identifythe source context to represent a text message or email message (e.g.,when two-factor authentication is utilized). As another example, theprocessors may identify the source context to represent a Word documentor Excel spreadsheet.

At 206, the one or more processors track a destination resource to whichthe content (from the candidate source resource) is pasted. For example,the processors track operations in which the content is selected fromthe clipboard and pasted to a field in a resource. The resourcereceiving the content is designated as a destination resource.

At 208, the one or more processors identify a context associated withthe destination resource. For example, the processors may identify thecontext to represent a credentials context, such as for a bank accountlogin page, a travel agency login page, a login page for an applicationassociated with an airline or hotel and the like. As other examples, thecontext may represent personal information context (e.g., a data entrypage for entering personal information) or a credit card informationcontext (e.g., a payment page for entering credit card information).

At 210, the one or more processors determining a correlation between thesource resource, destination resource and content copied and pastedtherebetween, and save the sequence of operations and correlation as atransfer action. For example, the correlation performed by theprocessors may represent a Jaccard index (e.g., statistic comparing thesimilarity, diversity of the first and second resource COIs), TermFrequency-Inverse Document Frequency (e.g., a weighting method forcalculating similarity), and/or the like. Additionally or alternatively,the one or more processors may identify a characteristic of interestfrom the content segment copied from the source resource and/or acharacteristic of interest from the data entry field in the destinationresource. For example, the content segment may represent alphanumerictext, a hyperlink, a script and the like, while the data entry field inthe destination resource may have field characteristics to receivealphanumeric text, a hyperlink, a script and the like. The processorsmay record in connection with the transfer action, the characteristicsof interest identifying the nature or type of content segment and/ordata entry field.

At 212, the one or more processors build and/or update the RCA transferlibrary 130, 180 based on the correlation determined. For example, theprocessors may record in the RCA transfer library transfer actions thatindicate context associated with source resources in combination withcontext associated with destination resources, as well as indicators ofone or more characteristics of interest of the content transfertherebetween historically. As a further example, a transfer action mayindicate that, when a user opens an active destination resourcecorresponding to a bank login page and substantially contemporaneouslytherewith receives a text message having an alphanumeric code, thealphanumeric code is to be copied onto the clipboard and pasted from theclipboard to the bank login page. As another example, a transfer actionmay indicate that, when a user opens a bank login page and substantiallycontemporaneously opens a pre-existing spreadsheet (that has beenaccessed multiple times in the past), alphanumeric codes from specificcells in the spreadsheet is to be copied to the user ID field and thepassword field in the bank login page. Similarly, a separate transferaction may indicate that when the user opens a different login page, andthe same pre-existing spreadsheet, alphanumeric codes from differentspecific cells in the spreadsheet should be copied to the user ID andpassword fields for the login page.

The foregoing example illustrates a process in which the processors maycorrelate resources by tracking a path of individual content segments.However, content segments may not be copied from one resource and pastedto another resource in a relatively short or contemporaneous period oftime. For example, a user may open a spreadsheet having multiplepasswords and copy the passwords to a clipboard. An extended period oftime may pass before the user chooses and paste one or more of thepasswords to a subsequently opened login page. Optionally, theprocessors may perform correlation based on the types of resources fromwhich content is copied and to which content is pasted. For example, theprocessors may build the RCA transfer library to include ranksindicative of a probability that a new content segment is to be copiedto an active destination resource. The processors may adjust the RCAtransfer library within the memory to rank the content segments based onthe ranks indicative of a probability that a new content segment is tobe copied to the active destination resource. The processors may rankthe content segments based on the correlation. For example, responsiveto the similarities between the resource contexts, the processors mayrank the resources similarly. Additionally or alternatively, responsiveto differences and/or lack of correlation between the first resourcecontexts, the processors may rank the resources separate from another,such as at different ranks. Additionally or alternatively, rankings maybe generated based in part on a time delay between when the source anddestination resources are opened.

In connection with the foregoing operations, the automatic transferlibrary is built while the RCA manager monitors operations by the user.For example, the RCA manager identifies that a user opens a firstresource that corresponds to a login page, and subsequently receives anotification from a second resource (e.g., an email message or textmessage). The RCA manager identifies that the user selects and copiescontent from a field in the second resource (e.g., a temporary passwordin an email message, a numeric code in a text message). The RCA manageridentifies that the user selects/designates a field in the firstresource (e.g., clicking a cursor on a user ID field or password fieldin the login page). The RCA manager identifies that the user performsone or more clipboard paste operations to paste content to thedesignated field, and then choose a submit/enter icon on the firstresource. The RCA manager and MLA monitor and track the foregoingoperations and record the foregoing operations as a transfer action inassociation with source and destination resources having correspondingresource contexts of interests (COIs).

For example, each time content is copied to the clipboard, the RCAmanager may identify a resource COI that is copied onto a clipboard. TheCOI may represent communication content that is copied from theclipboard, into one or more fields, and/or the like. The RCA manageridentifies a field of the active destination resource that is beingcopied from the clipboard.

FIG. 2 is described in connection with observing transfer actions inconnection with a clipboard. It is recognized however that the clipboardmay be omitted in connection with embodiments herein. Instead,embodiments may be implemented that do not utilize a clipboard, butinstead utilize some other form of the memory.

FIG. 3 illustrates a graphical representation of a process forautomatically managing the content transfer to a destination resourcebased on resource context awareness. FIG. 3 illustrates a clipboard 302,such as stored in the memory of the computing device (e.g., computingdevice 110), resources 310, 314 and 316, a destination resource 312 andan RCA transfer library 318. The source resources 310, 314 and 316 maybe accessed in connection with the implementation of a singleapplication, such as different web pages presented while accessing auser account, scheduling travel, etc. Alternatively, the sourceresources 310, 314 and 316 may correspond to separate and independentapplications (e.g., an Excel spreadsheet, a webpage from a browsersession, and a window opened through an application).

During operation, one or more of the source resources 310, 314 and 316may be opened at the same time. Under direction of the user, thecomputing device 110 may copy content elements from the source resources310, 314 and 316 (corresponding to content segments A, B, and C). Inaccordance with one embodiment, after one or more of the contentsegments A-C are copied to the clipboard 302, the computing device 110may open/activate a new resource (e.g., active destination resource312). When the destination resource 312 is activated, in accordance withembodiments herein, the processors identify a context associated withthe destination resource 312. The processors match the context of theactive destination resource with one or more resource context ofinterest from the RCA transfer library 318. For example, the destinationresource 312 may have a login context associated with an individual bankaccount. The processors search the RCA transfer library 318 for acorresponding login context for an individual bank account. When the RCAtransfer library 318 includes a login context of interest thatcorresponds to the login context for the individual bank account, theprocessors identify the transfer action associated with the logincontext of interest.

Based on the transfer action identified, the processors of the computingdevice 110 and/or remote device 160 automatically identify one of thecontent segments A-C from the clipboard 302 two be copied to thedestination resource 312. For example, the processors review thedesignated transfer action to determine, among other things, a contextof the source resource, one or more characteristics of the contentsegment (associated with the transfer action) and the like. Basedthereon, the processors automatically identify one of the contentsegments A-C (304, 306 and 308) as an output resource advancement (RA)content segment. The outbound RA content segment is then transferred tothe destination resource 312. In the example of FIG. 3, the contentsegment B 306 is identified as the outbound RA content segment to betransferred to the active destination resource 312.

In the foregoing manner, the clipboard 302 may receive content fromdifferent types of resources, such as an SMS application, notesapplication on the computing devices 110, a Word/Excel application, ane-mail application. For example, the clipboard 302 may receive a contentsegment A 304 from the SMS, a content segment B 306 from notes on thecomputing devices 110, a content segment C 308 from a Word/Exceldocument.

The content segments A-C 304, 306, 308 may be arranged on the clipboard302 in an order in which the content segments were copied to theclipboard 302. In accordance with certain standard operations of thecomputing device, the content segments would be pasted from theclipboard 302 in the same order as copied to the clipboard 302, namelyfirst in-first out. In accordance with embodiments herein, the contentsegments on the clipboard 302 are managed independently of the order inwhich the content segments are arranged on the clipboard. Accordingly,automated pasting operations implemented herein automatically pull inoutbound RA content segment from the clipboard independent of the orderin which the content segments are arranged on the clipboard 302.

The operations for transferring a content segment to a destinationresource 312 are performed automatically based on resource contextawareness. In connection therewith, the processors automatically copythe content segments to the clipboard 302 in the memory. The processorsautomatically identify a transfer action associated with a combinationof the source resource to the active destination resource 312. Inconnection with the automatic transferring operation, the processorsautomatically pull the outbound RA content segment from the clipboard302 independent of the order in which the content segments are arrangedon the clipboard. For example, the outbound content segments may becopied and/or pasted from the clipboard 302 to the active destinationresource 312 based on the order of the content segments stored on theclipboard 302.

The process described in connection with FIG. 3 assumes multiple contentsegments stored on the clipboard before, or at the time that, adestination resource is open/activated. Additionally or alternatively,embodiments herein may be implemented in which a destination resource isopen/activated, and no related content segments are stored on theclipboard. A process is described hereafter in connection with FIG. 4 inwhich the clipboard does not necessarily already include a contentsegment that satisfies a transfer action corresponding to a presentactive destination resource. For example, during the process of FIG. 3,it may be determined that the clipboard does not contain any contentsegment that corresponds to the present active destination resource.Accordingly, flow may move from the process of FIG. 3 to the process ofFIG. 4. Alternatively, the process of FIG. 3 may be omitted entirely,and the operations of FIG. 4 may be implemented independently as soon asa resource is open/activated.

FIG. 4 illustrates a process for the automatically transferring contentsegments from a source resource to a destination resource in accordancewith an alternative embodiment. The operations of FIG. 4 are carried outby the processors 114, 164 in response to program instructions such asin the applications stored in the memories.

At 402, one or more processors 114, 164 access an active destinationresource at a computing device. For example, the processors 114, 164 maydetermine that a resource has been opened, such as a webpage opened in abrowser, an application opened on a portable computing device and thelike. The processors 114, 164 identify a context for the resource todetermine whether the resource represents a destination resource. Whenthe context indicates that the resource represents a destinationresource, the processors 114, 164 declare the resource to represent anactive destination resource.

At 404, the one or more processors 114, 164 automatically compare thecontext of the active destination resource with one or more context ofinterest from the RCA transfer library 130, 180 to identify a matchingresource context of interest. For example, the machine learningalgorithms 121, 171 and/or the RCA manager 126, 176 may match the activedestination resource with a context indicating a bank login page thatutilizes two-factor authentication.

At 406, the one or more processors 114, 164 automatically identifying atransfer action associated with the context of the destination resource.For example, when the destination resource context indicates two-factorauthentication for a bank login, the transfer action may indicate that asource resource corresponds to an SMS text messaging having a five digitalphanumeric code. As another example, when the destination resourcecontext may indicate a credit card payment context, the transfer actionmay indicate that a source resource corresponds to a portion of a notesapplication to be opened on a mobile device and/or a portion of a Worddocument or Excel spreadsheet frequently opened/modified on a computingdevice.

At, 408, the one or more processors 114, 164 searches for and identifiesan incoming source resource having a source context corresponding to thetransfer action. In the foregoing bank login example, the processorssearch for SMS text messages that include an alphanumeric code with thecorresponding number of digits. In the foregoing credit card paymentexample, the processors search for a source resource to be opened thatrepresents a notes application, Word document or Excel spreadsheet.

The copied content segment is stored to a portion of the memory and ismarked as an outbound content segment. Optionally, the content segmentmay be copied to a portion of the memory managed as a clipboard.Additionally or alternatively, the content segment may not be stored atany intermediate memory, but instead directly transferred by theoperations at 410 and 412.

At 410, the one or more processors 114, 164 searches through theincoming source resource for a field that includes a content segmenthaving a content characteristic that matches the content characteristicdesignated in the transfer action. In the foregoing bank login example,the processors search the SMS text message for the five digitalphanumeric code. In the foregoing credit card payment example, theprocessors search the notes application, Word document or Excelspreadsheet for credit card payment content segments, such as a creditcard number, expiration date, security code, billing information, etc.the processors select and copy the content segments identified from theincoming source resource. The copied content segments are stored to theclipboard and/or other memory storage location and marked as an outboundRA content segment.

Optionally, a user confirmation may be requested. At 411, the one ormore processors 114, 164 may provide a notification to a user when acontent segment is copied from the incoming source resource to theclipboard and/or other memory storage location. For example, thenotification may present a pop-up window, an audio notification, and/orother forms of notification. The notification that the content segmenthas been copied from the incoming source resource. Optionally, theprocessors may include information identifying the content segment inthe notification. The identifying information may literally state thecontent segment, indicate the field or source, resource where thecontent segment was acquired and the like. The notification may alsopresent a user input to reverse the automated copying operation, such asan “undo icon.” For example, the user may be presented with a virtualicon and/or a yes/no option to permit or deny the automated copyingoperation of the content segment from the incoming source resource tothe clipboard. Additionally or alternatively, one or more buttons,keystrokes, and/or other input means may be defined to permit the userto undo and/or reverse the automated copying operation. For example, theuser may decline and/or undo the automated copying operation to theclipboard when the operation will inadvertently overwrite other contentthat the user has already stored on the clipboard. As another example,the user may be in the middle of another operation with multiple itemsbeing copied and pasted to and from the clipboard. It may be desirableto deny the automated copying operation to avoid reorganizing othercontent stored by the user on the clipboard.

Additionally or alternatively, the operation at 410 may notautomatically be completed. Instead, once a content segment isidentified automatically in the incoming source resource, the contentsegment may not automatically be transferred to the clipboard and/orother memory location. Instead, at 411, the processors present a pop-up,audio and/or other notification indicating that the system desires tocomplete the automated copying operation to the clipboard. Thenotification may present the user with the option to permit/approve theautomated copying operation and/or decline the automated copyingoperation.

The options at 411 to 1) automatically paste to the clipboard or 2)first present the user with the option to approve or decline theautomated copying operation, may be based on varying criteria. Forexample, when the processors determine that content was separatelyrecently added to the clipboard, the processors may then ask the userpermission to perform the automatic copying operation. For example, theuser may have recently added content to the clipboard and still be inthe middle of another data transfer operation and desire that no othercontent segment be copied to the clipboard. Accordingly, the processorsmay present the user with the option to approve/deny content to avoidinterfering with the user's other data transfer operation.

At 411, the one or more processors 114, 164 receive a user confirmationinput in connection with automatically transferring the content segmentto the memory. For example, the user confirmation input may beassociated with the “undo icon,” keystrokes, permit/approve theautomated copying operation, and/or the like. The user confirmationinput may confirm and/or deny the content segment added to the memoryand/or the clipboard.

When the user enters a confirmation input approving the content copyaction, flow moves to 412. When the user enters a confirmation inputdenying or declining the content copy action, flow moves to 414.

At 414, the one or more processors remove the content segment from theclipboard or other portion of memory. At 412, the one or more processors114, 164 transfer the outbound RA content segment from the memory to thecorresponding field in the active destination resource.

Optionally, the one or more processors 114, 164 may update the RCAtransfer library 130, 180 each time the operations of FIG. 4 areimplemented. For example, the processors 114, 164 may adjust and/orupdate the RCA transfer library 130, 180 based on which source anddestination resource context of interest are utilized, based on whichcontent segments are utilized, based on how often certain resourcecontext of interest are utilized and the like. For example, theprocessors 114, 164 may adjust the corresponding fields and/or thelocations for the active destination resource 312. The adjustment may bebased on adjustments from the user interface 120 of the computingdevices 110. The processors 114, 164 may receive an adjustment from theuser interface 120, such as a different corresponding field and/or thelocations for the active destination resource 312. The processors 114,164 may adjust the content segment responsive to the adjustment receivedfrom the user interface 120. For example, the processors 114 may updatethe RCA transfer library 130 based on the updated corresponding fieldand/or the locations from the user interface 120.

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As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, various aspects may beembodied as a system, method or computer (device) program product.Accordingly, aspects may take the form of an entirely hardwareembodiment or an embodiment including hardware and software that may allgenerally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or “system.”Furthermore, aspects may take the form of a computer (device) programproduct embodied in one or more computer (device) readable storagemedium(s) having computer (device) readable program code embodiedthereon.

Any combination of one or more non-signal computer (device) readablemedium(s) may be utilized. The non-signal medium may be a storagemedium. A storage medium may be, for example, an electronic, magnetic,optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus,or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specificexamples of a storage medium would include the following: a portablecomputer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a dynamicrandom access memory (DRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasableprogrammable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a portablecompact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, amagnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Program code for carrying out operations may be written in anycombination of one or more programming languages. The program code mayexecute entirely on a single device, partly on a single device, as astand-alone software package, partly on single device and partly onanother device, or entirely on the other device. In some cases, thedevices may be connected through any type of network, including a localarea network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection maybe made through other devices (for example, through the Internet usingan Internet Service Provider) or through a hard wire connection, such asover a USB connection. For example, a server having a first processor, anetwork interface, and a storage device for storing code may store theprogram code for carrying out the operations and provide this codethrough its network interface via a network to a second device having asecond processor for execution of the code on the second device.

Aspects are described herein with reference to the figures, whichillustrate example methods, devices and program products according tovarious example embodiments. These program instructions may be providedto a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer,or other programmable data processing device or information handlingdevice to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which executevia a processor of the device implement the functions/acts specified.The program instructions may also be stored in a device readable mediumthat can direct a device to function in a particular manner, such thatthe instructions stored in the device readable medium produce an articleof manufacture including instructions which implement the function/actspecified. The instructions may also be loaded onto a device to cause aseries of operational steps to be performed on the device to produce adevice implemented process such that the instructions which execute onthe device provide processes for implementing the functions/actsspecified.

The units/modules/applications herein may include any processor-based ormicroprocessor-based system including systems using microcontrollers,reduced instruction set computers (RISC), application specificintegrated circuits (ASICs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs),logic circuits, and any other circuit or processor capable of executingthe functions described herein. Additionally or alternatively, theunits/modules/controllers herein may represent circuit modules that maybe implemented as hardware with associated instructions (for example,software stored on a tangible and non-transitory computer readablestorage medium, such as a computer hard drive, ROM, RAM, or the like)that perform the operations described herein. The above examples areexemplary only, and are thus not intended to limit in any way thedefinition and/or meaning of the term “controller.” Theunits/modules/applications herein may execute a set of instructions thatare stored in one or more storage elements, in order to process data.The storage elements may also store data or other information as desiredor needed. The storage element may be in the form of an informationsource or a physical memory element within the modules/controllersherein. The set of instructions may include various commands thatinstruct the units/modules/applications herein to perform specificoperations such as the methods and processes of the various embodimentsof the subject matter described herein. The set of instructions may bein the form of a software program. The software may be in various formssuch as system software or application software. Further, the softwaremay be in the form of a collection of separate programs or modules, aprogram module within a larger program or a portion of a program module.The software also may include modular programming in the form ofobject-oriented programming. The processing of input data by theprocessing machine may be in response to user commands, or in responseto results of previous processing, or in response to a request made byanother processing machine.

It is to be understood that the subject matter described herein is notlimited in its application to the details of construction and thearrangement of components set forth in the description herein orillustrated in the drawings hereof. The subject matter described hereinis capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or of beingcarried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that thephraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose ofdescription and should not be regarded as limiting. The use of“including,” “comprising,” or “having” and variations thereof herein ismeant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereofas well as additional items. Further, in the following claims, thephrases “at least A or B”, “A and/or B”, and “one or more of A and B”(where “A” and “B” represent claim elements), are used to encompass i)A, ii) B and/or iii) both A and B.

It is to be understood that the above description is intended to beillustrative, and not restrictive. For example, the above-describedembodiments (and/or aspects thereof) may be used in combination witheach other. In addition, many modifications may be made to adapt aparticular situation or material to the teachings herein withoutdeparting from its scope. While the dimensions, types of materials andcoatings described herein are intended to define various parameters,they are by no means limiting and are illustrative in nature. Many otherembodiments will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewingthe above description. The scope of the embodiments should, therefore,be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the fullscope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. In the appendedclaims, the terms “including” and “in which” are used as theplain-English equivalents of the respective terms “comprising” and“wherein.” Moreover, in the following claims, the terms “first,”“second,” and “third,” etc. are used merely as labels, and are notintended to impose numerical requirements on their objects or order ofexecution on their acts.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method, comprising: under control of one ormore processors including program instructions to perform resourcecontext awareness (RCA) by: displaying a source resource and an activedestination resource contemporaneous with one another at a display of acomputing device; automatically identifying a resource contextassociated with the active destination resource; automatically matchingthe resource context to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCAtransfer library; and transferring an outbound resource advancement (RA)content segment from a clipboard to the active destination resourcebased on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library, the outbound RAcontent segment copied from the active resource to the clipboard, andpasted from the clipboard to the active destination resource,contemporaneous with access to the source resource and activedestination resource.
 2. The method of claim 1, further comprisingdesignating a content segment from a plurality of content segmentsstored in the clipboard of the computing device to be the outbound RAcontent segment based on the resource COI.
 3. The method of claim 2,further comprising receiving a user confirmation input in connectionwith automatically transferring the outbound RA content segment from toan active destination resource.
 4. The method of claim 1, furthercomprising identifying a transfer action from the RCA transfer librarybased on the resource COI, the transfer action including an operation totransfer a content segment from the source resource, the outbound RAcontent segment identified based on the transfer action.
 5. The methodof claim 4, further comprising utilizing a machine learning algorithm tobuild the transfer action, wherein the transfer action identifies sourceand destination contexts for the source and active destinationresources.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the RCA transfer libraryincludes multiple transfer actions that comprise operations forselecting a source field from a source resource, copying content fromthe source field to the clipboard, selecting content from the clipboard,designating a destination field within a destination resource andcopying the content from the clipboard to the destination field withinthe destination resource, the transferring based on one of the transferactions corresponding to the resource COI.
 7. The method of claim 1,further comprising: automatically identifying the transfer actionassociated with a combination of the source resource and the activedestination resource, the transfer action designating the resource COIassociated with the content segment to copy and paste from the sourceresource and to the active destination resource.
 8. The method of claim7, further comprising identifying an incoming content segment within thesource resource; and copying the incoming content segment to theclipboard, wherein the transferring comprises automatically pasting theincoming content segment to the active destination resource as theoutbound RA content segment.
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein theclipboard comprises multiple content segments arranged on the clipboardin an order in which the content segments were stored to the clipboard,the transferring comprising automatically pulling the outbound RAcontent segment from the clipboard independent of the order in which thecontent segments are arranged on the clipboard.
 10. The method of claim1, further comprising populating the RCA transfer library by: trackingcontent segments copied from source resources to the clipboard;identifying source resources will COI from the source resources;tracking destination resources to which the content segments are pasted;identifying destination resources COI for the destination resources;determining a correlation between the content segments, the sourceresources COI and the destination resources; and building transferactions based on the correlation and storing the transfer actions in theRCA transfer library.
 11. A computing device, comprising: one or moreprocessors; a display to display a source resource and an activedestination resource contemporaneous with one another at the display;memory to store program instructions accessible by the processor, thememory including a clipboard to store content segments; wherein,responsive to execution of the program instructions, the one or moreprocessors perform resource context awareness (RCA) by: automaticallyidentifying a resource context associated with the active destinationresource opened on the computing device; automatically matching theresource context to a resource context of interest (COI) from the RCAtransfer library; and transferring an outbound resource advancement (RA)content segment stored on the clipboard of the computing device to theactive destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCAtransfer library, the outbound RA content segment copied from the sourceresource to the clipboard, and pasted from the clipboard to the activedestination resource, contemporaneous with access to the source resourceand active destination resource.
 12. The device of claim 11, wherein thememory to store an application, the to display a window associated withthe application operating on the device, the window corresponding to theactive destination resource, wherein the transferring comprises pastingthe outbound RA content segment to a field in the window.
 13. The deviceof claim 11, wherein the content segment represents a credential and theactive destination resource represents a login webpage, the transferringcomprising automatically pasting the credential to a credential entryfield in the webpage.
 14. The device of claim 11, wherein the resourceCOI represents one or more of a credentials context, multi-factorauthentication context, travel context, account profile context, andfinancial payment context.
 15. The device of claim 11, furthercomprising a machine learning algorithm (MLA) stored on the memory, theMLA updating the RCA transfer library, wherein the RCA transfer libraryis stored and maintained on a remote device, the memory storing the RCAtransfer library.
 16. The device of claim 11, further comprisingidentifying an incoming content segment within a source resource; andcopying the incoming content segment to the clipboard based on atransfer action stored in the RCA transfer library, wherein thetransferring comprises automatically pasting the incoming contentsegment to the active destination resource as the outbound RA contentsegment.
 17. A computer program product comprising a non-signal computerreadable storage medium comprising computer executable code to performresource context awareness (RCA) by: displaying a source resource and anactive destination resource contemporaneous with one another at adisplay of a computing device; automatically identifying a resourcecontext associated with the active destination resource; automaticallymatching the resource context to a resource context of interest (COI)from an RCA transfer library; and transferring an outbound resourceadvancement (RA) content segment stored on a clipboard of the computingdevice to the active destination resource based on the resource COI fromthe RCA transfer library, the outbound RA content segment copied fromthe source resource to the clipboard, and pasted from the clipboard tothe active destination resource, contemporaneous with access to thesource resource and active destination resource.
 18. The computerprogram product of claim 17, the executable code to: access a sourceresource at the computing device; and utilize a machine learningalgorithm to automatically identify a transfer action associated with acombination of the source resource and the active destination resource,the transfer action designating the resource COI associated with contentto copy and paste from the source resource and to the active destinationresource.
 19. The computer program product of claim 17, furthercomprising a clipboard to store multiple content segments arranged onthe clipboard in an order in which the content segments were stored tothe clipboard, the executable code to automatically pull the outbound RAcontent segment from the clipboard independent of the order in which thecontent segments are arranged on the clipboard.
 20. The computer programproduct of claim 17, the executable code to populate the RCA transferlibrary by: tracking content segments copied from source resources tothe clipboard; identifying source resources COI from the sourceresources; tracking destination resources to which the content segmentsare pasted; identifying destination resources COI for the destinationresources; determining a correlation between the content segments, thesource resources COI and the destination resources; and buildingtransfer actions based on the correlation and storing the transferactions in the RCA transfer library.